Former State Senator Bob Rochelle’s new campaign motto - “Just Trust Me”

Democrat Bob Rochelle, a former state senator from Lebanon running to reclaim his old seat, recently started airing a television ad that touts his record in the state Senate and what he plans to do if he returns.

“Bob Rochelle will fight to cut the cost of health care and prescription drugs, and he will support an increase in the minimum wage,” the Rochelle ad states.

Then, Rochelle pipes in: “It takes experience to get things done. I will fight for you.”

Rochelle makes no mention, however, of his most controversial stance — support for a state income tax along with other tax reform measures while he served in the state Senate.

He has said that the income tax is a “dead issue.

Gee, Bob. I didn’t know the Tennessee Constitution had been amended to add a Taxpayers Bill of Rights provision, or that the Copeland Cap had been enhanced to require a super-majority, or that Jimmy Naifeh wasn’t speaker anymore.

Or that you were out of politics.

Maybe Bob Rochelle is a prophet - perhaps all these things could come to pass, and the income tax will be dead.  Of course, that also means he’s a prophet of his own demise, because to see it fulfilled, you’ve got to vote Republican.